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| Artist: | Suizan Miki (1887-1957) |
| Title: | Evening at Kiyamachi during the Daimonji Festival |
| Series: | Selected Views of Kyoto |
| Date of first edition?: | 1924 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Sato Shotaro |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Sato Shotaro |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 38398 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Artist: Miki Suizan
Title: Evening at Kiyamachi during the Daimonji Festival
Series: Shinsen Kyoto Meisho Dai-isshu – First Series of Collected Views of Kyoto
Date: 1924? 1925?
Publisher: Sato Shotaro
Edition: of 200
Format: Large oban (11" X 16 1/2")
Comment: The Daimonji (Dai, the Chinese character for big, large) Festival is the culmination of the O-Bon festival on August 16th, in which five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding Kyoto. It signifies the moment when the spirits of deceased family members, who are said to visit this world during O-Bon, are believed to be returning to the spirit world. In this design, a woman catches a reflection of the fire in a mirror. |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Evening at Kiyamachi during the Daimonji Festival
Lot AU56
Artist: Miki Suizan
Format: Dai-oban tate-e: 16.75" x 11"
Subject: Miki Suizan designed bijin-ga prints whose style shows the influence of ukiyo-e portraiture. Born in Hyogo in 1887, he became a pupil of the well known artist Takeuchi Seiho in 1903. Ten years later, he showed nihon-ga paintings in the 7th Bunten of 1913. Around 1924, Miki worked with the Kyoto publisher Sato Shotaro on the design of six bijin-ga and eight landscape prints, carved by Maeda and printed by Oiwa. Suizan's prints were exhibited the following year along with prints by Yoshikawa Kanpo, also published by Sato Shotaro. Prints by both artists were included in the 1930 Toledo exhibition. Miki continued to participated in the Bunten, Teiten, and Shin Bunten exhibitions until 1942. He died in 1957. Although his prints are of traditional subject matter, they have a modern feeling, combining highly detailed portraits with abstracted landscapes.
This bijin design is from his early period. This example is from the first limited edition (stamped red seal on verso), and unlike later editions bears his signature and seal on the lantern top left.
Publisher: Sato Shotaro
Date: 1924
Condition: Full size. Paper, as uaual, a little toned in top margin and on verso. Minor marks and flaws. Generally good state.
Colour: Very good
Impression: Fine with extensive gauffrage
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